Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

April 09, 2026 - 16:34 UTC

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BUT NOT TOO MUCH!
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And if you’re a student in the U.S.? “Lock up your cellphones because we don’t care about your ability to phone emergency services in the highly likely event of a school shooting because gun laws mean more to us then the lives of our youth.”
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Yup. And turns out it’s not even the best defense against tyranny, so it was for nothing.
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I'm fine with kids having a "dumbphone" to call their parents with in case of an emergency. But I don't think smartphones have been great for developing brains.

That's entirely orthogonal to AI, which should be banned
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School shootings are awful but they are not highly likely events
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There will always be somebody to call 911. And having a phone beep while hiding from a shooter could be a big problem. Mostly, kids were very distracted in school. The schools that have restricted phones have seen everything from attention to behavioral improvements.
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Laptops cause more problems than they solve
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Not for normal adults.
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Unironically AI will save us here!

The laptops give students practice that can be graded immediately without the teacher, at the cost of not showing your work in math. But using Claude to grade handwritten work is doable. No more IXL!
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No it's not
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Dude a forensic handwriting analyst would have trouble grading my students' work
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Without schools being forced to adopt AI there would be zero traffic on chatGPT
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Also, everyone pause what you're doing, it's time for an active shooter drill.

As the parent of a teen, the phone usage is one of the last things I worry about.
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Weird, because teachers are really concerned with it because of the drop in learning outcomes that have happened since they became widespread.
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Is this a causation or a correlation thing? I know plenty of teachers and people that work in education, and I think they are way more concerned about other factors than kids having a communication device.
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Well, it's important to understand the material you might find in your phone hasn't been approved by a State approved ministry of Truth
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Unfortunately, in our experience, the laptops just serve as yet another distraction. The kids just played games on them, and the teachers can’t keep up and neither can the technology people who take care of the laptops.  I can see them being used for specific lessons,
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And also: we’re totally going to keep letting people shoot you, and now you can’t call for help!
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Apple gave schools free ipads to get kids used to the iOS environment so they would stick with it as adults.
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Both are damaging in different ways.
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"No phones bc you're going to use them to goof off during class >:( Now go check one of the learning apps on your school-issued ipad or chromebook :) We trust you to not just goof off on that thing"
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Yeah, wouldn't want to allow you to have contact with actual real people when the lying toady-machine is available...
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And here’s some instruction on how to survive a school shooting
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Category creation is an expensive marketing strategy that rarely works.
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"Also ignore that if a mad man walks in with a gun to kill you all it's up to your overworked and underpaid teacher to save your life! Anyways make sure you do what ChatGPT says even if it's harmful."
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I work with middle schoolers in an extra-curricular program, and one time a couple of my students & I got invited to a meeting for student voices at the program. One of the adults from a different location PROUDLY said they were doing AI storytelling for their group. I was livid.
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Like,, I work my ass off teaching art to these kids and you're showing them how to make chatgpt write a story? Fuck off
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Dear god. If any of this generation manage to get through this with their sanity intact it will be a miracle.
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I don't feel as strongly about ai as many do here, but holy shit, keep it the fuck away from our schools
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If ai is so amazing, use it to free up capital and labor for more teachers, for better teachers
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Schools rarely believe students when they report teachers for being bigoted and abusive, it wasn't until students could film and bring light to these situations did many have a chance for justice
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